Progress, page 2

I received the following email in response to
yesterday's article "Progress?".

>Bill : Your going to be very unpopular with
>this kind of column. Have you noticed the
>number of pages in the local media lately?
>Even telephone time has suffered from late
>of participants, both sponsors and callers!

My response:

Popular but screwed is not where I want to be! If
real progress demands unpopularity, then so be it.

Obama said yesterday, in his State of the Union
address, that he's not content to have the US come
in second. How do we achieve as good as second
with a docile population? We'd be lucky to come
in behind all the members of the European Union!

Bill Vajk